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JumpingKentFlash
The tours are great and the music is great. What more do you need to know?
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ChrisMQuote
JumpingKentFlash
The tours are great and the music is great. What more do you need to know?
That they can still play a stripped down show.
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Adrian-L
dumping the sparkly jackets and the hair dye would be a good start.
Then sit them on stools, with acoustic guitars and let's hear some
rhythm and blues and primal rock and roll.
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RnT
I agree, anyway as far as the music's concerned. Back to the blues. My live favorites of the last decade:
Many versions of familiar songs on Stripped
Back of my hand (great slide by Jagger)
Can't be satisfied
Corrina
The "blues version" of 19th NB
I think it's an old coat that still fits them perfectly.
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Gazza
what - for 12 minutes?
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Gazza
They could certainly do it on any given night, spud with a carefully selected playlist - whether they could do it for a sustained period of shows with any degree of musical variety is another thing.
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Ever since 1989 "The Rolling Stones" to me are like "a Musical":
* big stages with too much theatre and fireworks, people from 7 to 77
* bottles of wines etc. for fathersday
* female backgroundsingers on stage
* Volkswagen Golf "rolling stones" version
* mainstream rockmusic like voodoo/bridges/abb
* all kinds of uninteresting "celebrities" in the backroom, like Mrs. H. Clinton
I want that arrogant sexy sweaty hardrockin'r&b band back.....nasty guitars, boogie-woogie piano... (and Mick doesn't have to dance, he just can sit on that stool playing his harmonica). Why not start with a record which is inspired by Bo Diddley??
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liddas
Fair arguments, still, from a strictly musical point of view, I prefer the big band to the stripped combo. There is more variety this way.
All in all, and I agree with JKF here, BU vocals apart, we are discussing of a little guitar playing of Blondie and an extra brass: what's the big deal?
And as far as the BU vocals are concerned, I wonder why everybody loves the Exile sound but wants no extra vocals on stage. BU vocals are quintessential to the best stones sound. And, as a matter of fact, BF/LF/BC do sing better than RW ... (as much as I love old ronnie gin-soaked grunt!)
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john nicholls
The Stones will carry on as they are. Nothing will change that's for sure it's too late now. Financially the formula they use works